I personally was like that. I originally wanted to be a small entrepreneur through hard work, then the gatekeeping of said "hard work" radicalized me to the left.
I never really liked this explanation. I live in a very conservative province and many of my friends are like this.
NONE of them suffer from this delusion.
What it is is that they believe that the government is intentionally impoverishing working class people (which is true) and that this is partially the fault of poor people, this myth that there’s a huge mass of people riding the system on their backs. They often see the rich as having worked incredibly hard for their money (they often don’t) and don’t understand the difference between their uncle who’s a millionaire that actually did work hard and billionaires that buy politicians and control our society to enrich themselves on the backs of the working class.
That's why I openly pity my A-Type, true believer coworkers going above and beyond and sacrificing their own lives to enrich the already rich further.
They don't like the way I shake my head and sigh at them when they gush about how productive they were. I'm just there to get my subsistence crumbs from the owner class while doing what I have to. They see running up the score for some greedy fucks poisoning society with needless consumerism as some noble mission 🤣
Easy I see and interact with lazy people everyday who abuse the system and refuse to try to better themselves I have had to the best of my knowledge zero interaction with the richest people of the world in my life. People see what’s right in front of them as the issue even if it’s not.
I wouldn’t consider it bleak I consider myself lazy I think it’s part of being human to be like water and go the path of least resistance. I was a loser until my dad put a shotgun in my face and said I was joining the Marine Corp went to college after to smoke weed and party met my wife there and only by wanting to get laid did I start getting good grades and applying to internships to keep her impressed started out in consulting in the late 90s hated every minute of it but after having kids and wanting nothing but the best for them I went for promotions worked around the clock and made partner 11 years later. Most people I talk to are the same way we hate work but have some sort of golden handcuff that keeps them going. I’d much rather just do nothing and if circumstances were different I’d be doing nothing and be happy I’m happy now as well but the cost of this happiness is much higher.
It's not the economy. The U.S. has one of the highesr production rates in the world, and one of the highest GDPs in the world.
The money is absolutely there in the economy to make ends meet for us all, the economy is more than healthy enough for it. But that wealth doesn't go to us, it goes to the 1%.
It's the distribution of wealth/ownership that's the problem.
Amen! I don't have 4 degrees and still work 3 jobs to make ends meet because I'm lazy. Most people I know are the same. Apparently some people don't understand statistics or the bell curve.
Some of them yes others may not have the intellectual/mental capability or physical issues that prevent it as well. Most people who want and work to get out of poverty will get to the lower middle class which is a better life than 99% of humans have ever had.